THQ Joins the Used Game Fight

[Spudgun Man]

Oh how dare you claim back money on a product you no longer want and effectivly recycle cleverly.

 

[Keava]

But that's the whole point. If you've never bought second hand then you're missing out on a butt load of awesome old games.

Do you want your children to grow up in a world where they're unable to play any of the awesome games that we used to play when we were their age?

Gaming historians will say of this decade, "we know nothing about the games which were developed during this era because we lost the serial keys."

Slap your retailers in the face then.

In Poland we have CDProjekt (guys behind Witcher and GOG as well) and they release classics for low prices for long itme now. Generally a new game in Poland costs ~35-40$, you can buy perfeclty 'new' classics in the Classics series for about 5-10$. No used crap.
And then bigger shops tend to also do bundle deals where if you buy 2 games from classics series you get 3rd one free. Everyone is happy.

Not to mention the whole digital distribution market that is growing every year, providing you both with new releases and old classics. I fail to see how it will stop you from being able to enjoy nowadays games in 5-10 years.

It seems like most of people just acts likr they deserve to get games cheaper because they dont want to pay for a product they -might- not like. Well, its your money, you should have enough of your own brain to let you decide if you want to spend it, noone forces you to buy every new game on the market on release day, few months forward and there will be discount.

 

[darkknight9]

This is almost getting as bad as the government wanting taxes on cars that are resold (above and beyond the road taxes).

I'm ready to give up on gaming and just come out every ten years or so when a new Diablo comes out.

 

[asinann]

I'm just waiting for them to lock a couple of levels in the game with a single use code, like the first one.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

What gets me is that reselling stuff has been a part of society for a looooooooong time now and these evil corporate conglomerate assholes are the first to make a big issue out of it.

 

[oktalist]

In Poland we have CDProjekt (guys behind Witcher and GOG as well) and they release classics for low prices for long itme now. Generally a new game in Poland costs ~35-40$, you can buy perfeclty 'new' classics in the Classics series for about 5-10$. No used crap.

Yeah, I love GOG, but they can't do every game.

There is always a way around these systems though, so all is not lost.

It seems like most of people just acts likr they deserve to get games cheaper because they dont want to pay for a product they -might- not like.

Mose of people are douchebags.

 

[shaboinkin]

Good
Goood
Gooooood

About time. Console gamers have had it easy. Now it is time to see it from the side of a PC gamer.

Welcome to CD-Keys folks

 

[Zeroresistence]

Eh, its not that bad

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

And just like that, I love THQ more, and continue to look forward to their publishing of Saint's Row 3.

 

[shaboinkin]

Suppose people start to develop keygens for console games now?
lmao...irrrroonnnyyyyy

 

[Orcus The Ultimate]

THQ lost my trust, which is unvaluable.

 

[Tharwen]

I sincerely hope this DRM and used games craze is just a low point in the gaming cycle.

 

[chronobreak]

The time has come for gamers everywhere to rise up in support of their passion! Revolution is here!

Nah, wait, you're all just going to keep buying into it because they have you by the balls, and heaven forbid you miss out on that hot game you've seen all those exciting commercials for. Oh well, back to chess for me I guess.

 

[Doc Cannon]

It seems like most of people just acts like they deserve to get games cheaper because they dont want to pay for a product they -might- not like. Well, its your money, you should have enough of your own brain to let you decide if you want to spend it, noone forces you to buy every new game on the market on release day, few months forward and there will be discount.

I agree, people don't have the right to demand games be cheaper, but I also see many others calling them morons or asshats because they try to save their hard earned money. They are not thiefs. Reselling is not the devil's work, it has been happening since the beginning and there's still a game industry. (but hell, I'm no economist, so I might be wrong)

But yeah, people shouldn't make demands like "this game is not worth 60, make it cheaper" or "this game should be more than 6 hours long" (look at that! both of them apply to MW2!). If you don't like the price, if you feel it's unfair, don't buy it, that should teach them (unless 4 million other jerks DO pay 120 bucks for a 3 hour-long game, then those greedy bastards will learn nothing!).

Just for the record: I'm still waiting the prices on Mass Effect 2 and Borderlands to go down a bit

 

[manaman]

It looks like this is the future, kids. I suggest you get used to it.

*Ba-dum pish*

In all seriousness, I have no problem with this new solution. The developers need to make money and this is an understandable way to do it. It's much preferable to intrusive DRM, the apparent solution to piracy.

And the 3 - 4 dollars you save buying used is never worth it anyways.

A lot of used games I buy you don't find on sale anymore. I highly doubt if I am buying it used because I can't find it new that they are going to continue to still offer the downloads.

Besides what happens in the future if I want to play my games and they no longer have their authentication servers online, or the downloadable content up. Wanting to add to a game is one thing. Taking away functions is another entirely.

 

[AnarchistAbe]

What about San Andreas, Shadow of the Collosus and Morrowind? Y'know, games which have a single player longer than a few hours & are very re-playable....
That's the real issue here, game devs are now very, very lazy and put a large emphasis on the multiplayer instead of bothering with making an outstanding single player. Multiplayer can get very old very fast, and once you've had your fill of it, may as well pass it on.

 

[VZLANemesis]

I'm seriously getting pissed more and more about such measures from big companys... I'm seriously considering starting to pirate more games just to NOT give them the pleasure, motherfucking bastards, wtf is going on on these ppls heads!?

Let the pirating begin.

Fuck yeah...

 

[ravensshade]

3 to 4 dollars?! What about the golden oldies in the bargain bucket for 1 or 2 dollars, that were fifty dollars when they were released half a decade ago?

what does a normal customer lose on it? it's just a serial key.. unless you buy second hand (which inever do anyway)

But that's the whole point. If you've never bought second hand then you're missing out on a butt load of awesome old games.

Do you want your children to grow up in a world where they're unable to play any of the awesome games that we used to play when we were their age?

Gaming historians will say of this decade, "we know nothing about the games which were developed during this era because we lost the serial keys."

first off i've bought quite a few bargain bucket games and since the store i buy them in has no 2nd hand sales thing those are still full games...
also as it currently stands the only thing gaming historians will miss out on is multiplayer and possibly DLC. and sometimes game servers will be down and only lan oppertunity possible.
so i must say that my children would still be able to play most of the awesome games i played at their age aslong as they aint multiplayer only

 

[Kajin]

I don't get why people are so against the idea of this. If you buy a used game for thirty dollars while the current retail price is still fifty, even with the five dollar code you're still getting the used game for fifteen dollars off retail price.

Suck it up you whiny pricks, you're still getting a decent discount.

 

[Woe Is You]

Its their servers, they need to maintain them, used/traded/rental games increase the playing time per copy and don't contribute the publisher to cover server costs.

Still I expect a lawsuit when the first guy RRODs and can't play online anymore and the phone support monkey tells him to pay $5.

Except UFC uses the same peer-to-peer tech through Xbox Live and PSN that most console multiplayer games use. Simply put, THQ doesn't have much to maintain.